Mary Jane Collins Ashby-Pitt

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868

Dyer, Mary Jane Collins

Birth Date: 7 Aug. 1839 Death Date: 30 July 1927 Gender: Female Age: 17 Company: Unidentified Companies (1857)

Pioneer Information: She married in Salt Lake City in October 1857; divorced in 1859. In the 1860 census she is Mary J. Dyer.

SOURCE: http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails/1,15791,401...
On 12/12/1861 she married William Pitt and was with him as Mary Pitt in the 1870 Census in Ward 17, SLC.

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• Census: 1851 - Gilly Witlan, Part Ot The Llansamlet, Glamorganshire, Wales

The family story is that she divorced her husband, Benjamin because he wanted to take a second wife and she would not be a part of that. It was winter time and she walked and carried her baby, Etta some 20 miles all the way back to her parents home and then divorced him.

From Find a Grave: Daughter of William Dyer and Mary Collins

Married Benjamin Ashby, 25 Oct 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Daughter - Mary Henrietta Ashby

Married William Hill Pitt, 12 Dec 1861, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - Caroline Blanche Pitt, Regenia May Pitt, William Washington Pitt, Mountain Daisy Pitt, Harold Mahonrai Pitt, Marco Anthony Pitt

Utah Death Certificate